Madhya Pradesh

Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, October 15 The Congress on Sunday announced the first list of candidates for next month’s Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. For the 230-member strong Madhya Pradesh House, the Congress has announced 144 names....

New Delhi, October 10 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Madhya Pradesh Government of corruption and mismanagement. At a rally in Shahdol, he quoted from LK Advani’s memoir where he apparently said the “original laboratory” of the BJP-RSS...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 10 Ever since four-time MLA Yashodhara Raje Scindia announced her unwillingness to contest from Shivpuri seat in Madhya Pradesh, questions have been raised on whether her nephew and Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will take...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 9 Hours after the Election Commission announced poll schedules for five states, the BJP unveiled its first list of 41 candidates for Rajasthan elections fielding seven sitting MPs in a state it hopes to wrest...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 9 The Election Commission on Monday set the ball rolling for a crucial poll cycle announcing single-phase elections for the Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana and voting in two phases for Left-wing...

Chandigarh, October 8 Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh won the J&K Open with a solid final round performance of 3-under 69 to take his total to 11-under 277 today. Chouhan (71-70-67-69) picked up...

Bhopal, October 7 In the wake of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra predicting Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s exit from the top post following the year-end Assembly polls, the latter asked people at a rally whether he should...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 5 Ahead of Assembly elections later this year, the race for Scheduled Tribes (ST) votes heated up in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday with star campaigners of both the ruling BJP and opposition Congress feting local...

Jabalpur, October 5 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit out at the Congress for eulogising “only one family”, saying the country did not get independence or achieve development solely because of it. On his second visit to poll-bound Madhya...

HOLDING up a mirror to society are three blood-curdling incidents of brutality against girls. With each case being no less horrible than the other, one wonders if India is a country fit for girls. The brazenness with which such violence...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, September 29 The game of nerves has begun in election bound Madhya Pradesh, where the ruling BJP and the Congress are pitted in a direct contest with saffron forces facing an 18-year anti-incumbency. The BJP has...

PTI Ujjain (MP), September 29 The father of the man arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl here on Friday demanded capital punishment for his son, while the local bar association appealed that no lawyer should defend him in the...

Balaghat, September 29 A 25-year-old Naxalite carrying a reward of Rs 14 lakh was killed in an encounter with an elite combat unit of the Madhya Pradesh police in the state’s Balaghat district on Friday morning, a senior official said....

Satya Prakash New Delhi, September 29 Turning down demands for reducing the age of consent from 18 years to 16 years under the POCSO Act, the Law Commission has recommended to the Government that it should be retained at 18...

Ujjain (MP), September 28 Police in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain city on Thursday arrested an auto-rickshaw driver for allegedly raping and brutalising a girl, aged about 12, who had been found wandering on the city streets in injured condition three days...

On the occasion of World Tourism Day, Shubhangi Atre, who is well known for her role as Angoori Bhabhi in sitcom Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain, shared her favourite destinations from her hometown Madhya Pradesh, and recommended the must-visit places in...

Indore, September 27 Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has said he is finding it hard to believe that the party decided to make him a candidate in the coming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. Opposition Congress, however, took a...

Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, September 27 Packed with major surprises, the BJP’s second list of 39 names for the upcoming polls to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly a couple of days back appeared to hold several nuanced messages for party leaders and...

PTI/IANS Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), September 27 A girl, around 12 years of age, was found bleeding on a street in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh, and her medical examination confirmed that she had been raped, police said on Wednesday. A...

Patiala, September 26 Yuvraj Singh Virk, a student at Punjabi University, has bagged two gold medals in the 42nd North Zone Shooting (skeet) Championship in the senior and junior categories. This event was held at the Dr Karni Singh...

Mumbai, September 26 NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the Congress and its allies wholeheartedly supported the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament, and asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not briefed correctly about it. He also said that...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, September 25 The BJP today fielded three Union ministers, a national general secretary and four sitting Lok Sabha MPs as candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh elections, raising the stakes in what promises to be a...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, September 25 PM Narendra Modi today launched a scathing attack on rival Congress in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, accusing it of outsourcing its entire functioning to “urban Naxals”. “The Congress has lost all its will to strive....

New Delhi, September 25 The BJP on Monday fielded Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Singh Patel and Phaggan Singh Kulaste, and several other party MPs for the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls as it released its second list of 39...

Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, September 25 In a repeat of scenes at the BJP headquarters last week, the party’s women leaders today honoured Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the passage of women’s reservation bill in Madhya Pradesh amid demand for SC/ST/OBC...